Ben Apfelbaum has been a collector, student, and scholar of American and Canadian art, folk and vernacular art, outsider art and self-taught art for over thirty years. An alumnus of Antioch College and the University of Chicago , he holds a Master's Degree in American Folk Art Studies from New York University , and has taught for several years within that program as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art and Arts Professions and in the Folk Art Institute of the Museum of American Folk Art .
In Atlanta , Apfelbaum has taught at the Atlanta College of Art; he has taught at the Chastain Art Center of the City of Atlanta and at the Spruill Center for the Arts. Guest curator for MAFA on more than one occasion, he authored Beneath the Ice: The Art of the Fish Decoy (N. Y.: E. P. Dutton, 1991) which served as catalog to the popular touring show of the same name. He has written for trade and popular journals, and has been profiled and consulted by several national publications including The New York TIMES and Country Home , and has also appeared in Folk Art , the publication of the Museum of American Folk Art, and the Folk Art Messenger , in addition to contributing essays and articles to several books and catalogs; an article on vernacular architecture in Montgomery, AL was published in the British outsider art journal, Raw Vision , in 1998.
In Atlanta , Apfelbaum has taught at the Atlanta College of Art; he has taught at the Chastain Art Center of the City of Atlanta and at the Spruill Center for the Arts. Guest curator for MAFA on more than one occasion, he authored Beneath the Ice: The Art of the Fish Decoy (N. Y.: E. P. Dutton, 1991) which served as catalog to the popular touring show of the same name. He has written for trade and popular journals, and has been profiled and consulted by several national publications including The New York TIMES and Country Home , and has also appeared in Folk Art , the publication of the Museum of American Folk Art, and the Folk Art Messenger , in addition to contributing essays and articles to several books and catalogs; an article on vernacular architecture in Montgomery, AL was published in the British outsider art journal, Raw Vision , in 1998.
Bio excerpted from http://www.apgphoto.org/gallery/biographies/apfelbaum_ben.shtml